תהלים מ״ז | (Psalms 47) Dieser Psalm wird siebenmal vor dem Schofer blasen wiederholt (translation by Yehoshua Heshil Miro, 1829)

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Date: 2022-02-19

Last Updated: 2025-04-15

Categories: Tehilim Book 2 (Psalms 42–72), Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Psalms 47, shofar blowing, למנציח Lamnatse'aḥ, מזמור Mizmor, שופר shofar, תשרי זמן Tishrei Zman

Excerpt: "Dieser Psalm wird siebenmal vor dem Schofer blasen wiederholt (Psalm 47)" was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №35 on p. 44. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №31 on pp. 47-48. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №33 on pp. 50-51. . . .

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Source (Hebrew)	Translation (German)	Translation of German (English)
	Dieser Psalm wird siebenmal vor dem Schofer blasen wiederholt. (Psalm 47).	This psalm is repeated seven times before blowing the shofar. (Psalms 47)
לַמְנַצֵּחַ  לִבְנֵי־קֹרַח מִזְמוֹר׃	Dem Sangmeister ein Psalm von den Söhnen Ḳoraḥ’s.	To the songmaster, a psalm from the sons of Qoraḥ.
כׇּל־הָעַמִּים תִּקְעוּ־כָף הָרִיעוּ לֵאלֹהִים בְּקוֹל רִנָּה׃	Frohlocket alle Völker mit Händen! Jauchzet Gott mit fröhlichem Schall!	Rejoice all nations with drumming![1] lit. with hands.  Rejoice to God with joyful sound!
כִּי־יְהֹוָה עֶלְיוֹן נוֹרָא מֶלֶךְ גָּדוֹל עַל־כׇּל־הָאָרֶץ׃ יַדְבֵּר עַמִּים תַּחְתֵּינוּ וּלְאֻמִּים תַּחַת רַגְלֵינוּ׃ יִבְחַר־לָנוּ אֶת־נַחֲלָתֵנוּ אֶת־גְּאוֹן יַעֲקֹב אֲשֶׁר־אָהֵב סֶלָה׃	Denn der Herr, der Höchste, Ehrfurchtswürdige, ist großer König auf dem Erdreich, zwinget Völker unter uns, Nationen unter unsere Füße, wählt uns unser Erbtheil, Jakobs Herrlichkeit von ihm geliebt.	For the Lord, the most high and awesome, is [the] greatest king on the earth, compels peoples under us, nations under our feet, chooses for us our inheritance, loved by him [is] Yaaqov’s glory.
עָלָה אֱלֹהִים בִּתְרוּעָה יְהֹוָה בְּקוֹל שׁוֹפָר׃ זַמְּרוּ אֱלֹהִים זַמֵּרוּ זַמְּרוּ לְמַלְכֵּנוּ זַמֵּרוּ׃ כִּי מֶלֶךְ כׇּל־הָאָרֶץ אֱלֹהִים זַמְּרוּ מַשְׂכִּיל׃	Gott fährt empor unter Jauchzen, der Ewige unter Posaunenschall. Lobsinget Gott, lobsinget unserem Könige, lobsinget! denn Gott ist auf dem ganzen Erdreich König. Rühret das Saitenspiel zum Unterweisunglied.	God ascends with shouting, the Eternal with sound of trumpets. Sing praises to God, sing praises to our King, sing praises, for God is King over all the earth. Stir the strings to the song of instruction.
מָלַךְ אֱלֹהִים עַל־גּוֹיִם אֱלֹהִים יָשַׁב  עַל־כִּסֵּא קׇדְשׁוֹ׃ נְדִיבֵי עַמִּים  נֶאֱסָפוּ עַם אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם כִּי לֵאלֹהִים מָגִנֵּי־אֶרֶץ מְאֹד נַעֲלָה׃	Gott ist König über alle Völker, Gott sitzt auf seinem heiligen Throne, versammelt sind die Könige der Völker zu einem Volke des Gottes Abrahams; denn Gottes sind die Schilde des Erdreichs; hoch erhaben ist er.	God is king over all nations, God sits on his holy throne, the kings of the nations are gathered together as one people of the God of Avraham; for God’s are the shields of the earth; he is exalted.

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“Dieser Psalm wird siebenmal vor dem Schofer blasen wiederholt (Psalm 47)” was translated by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaicher Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaicher Religion as teḥinah №35 on p. 44. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №31 on pp. 47-48. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №33 on pp. 50-51.

We welcome corrections and improvements. The transcription of the German from Latin script in Fraktur type provided machine-readable text for a machine translation by DeepL, which we then edited for accuracy and clarity. –Aharon Varady

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Notes

1	lit. with hands.

Contributor: Andreas Rusterholz (transcription)

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  Name: Andreas Rusterholz (transcription)
  Bio: Andreas Rusterholz is a professor of Theology (New Testament and Hermeneutics) at Kwansei Gakuin University School of Humanities Department of Literature and Linguistics. He translated (together with Takako Noguchi, 1943-2017) Jüdische Religion by Günter Stemberger (Beck 1995) into Japanese: Yudayakyo - Rekishi, Shinko, Bunka [Judaism: History, Faith, Culture], Kyobunkwan 2015.
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  Name: Yehoshua Heshil Miro
  Bio: Yehoshua Heshil ben Rabbi Binyamin Miro (fl. first-half 19th c.) was a writer and Jewish educator in Prussia, an early advocate and teacher of Jewish girls. He worked as a professor at a private school, and a teacher at the Königliche Wilhelms-Schule (and possibly also the Industrial School for Israelite Girls), in then Prussian Breslau. We know very little else about Miro aside from his publication of a popular anthology of teḥinot for German speaking women first published in 1829. If you know more about Miro, please contact us.
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  Name: Bnei Qoraḥ
  Bio: The Bnei Qoraḥ (sons of Ḳoraḥ a/k/a Qoraḥites) were an important branch of the singers of the Kohathite division (2 Chronicles 20:19). Eleven psalms are attributed to the Qoraḥites: Psalms 42, Psalms 44 - 49, Psalms 84, Psalms 85, Psalms 87, and Psalms 88. Some of the sons of Qoraḥ also were "porters" of the temple (1 Chronicles 9:17-19); one of them was over "things that were made in the pans" (v31), i.e., the baking in pans for the meat-offering (Leviticus 2:5). (via wikipedia)
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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (translation)
  Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer translator for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his translations, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot Naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also transcribes prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes for the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
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